As part of my automated build and test process, I wanted to be able to confirm that my third party components were the proper version and, more importantly, that they were fully licensed.  For some components, I can create a new instance of the control or component and test its IsLicensed property.  For others, the assembly itself is ...

I'd like to get continuous integration (CI) working for my TFS server here at the office as my next step.  A little googling led to Khushboo's post on doing just this with the RC bits that I'm using at the moment.  The instructions were pretty simple to follow and with minimal headache (aside from the need to install VS on the build box ...

I gave a presentation on Visual Studio Team System last night to about 30 students at Wayne State University in Detroit.  I don’t think it was one of my better presentations, for a number of reasons, which I’ll lament here and attempt to improve in the future. First off, this was an earlier presentation than most of the INETA ...

I've been using Cruise Control for a few weeks now and noticed a recurring problem where it would just error out and not recover periodically.  The issue was a timeout checking my source control server, which is running Vault and hosted remotely.  Anyway, Jonathan Cogley at Thycotic pointed me to a fix they'd come up with when they ...

http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=152&thread=82646I'm wrapping up some tests of AspAlliance Cache Manager (no URL yet) and wanted to ensure that my output was valid XHTML.  So I did some googling and found this thread which led me to create this technique in my unit test: private bool IsUrlValidXhtml(string ...

I've uploaded my presentations from last week's ASP.NET Connections conference in Las Vegas to the ASPAlliance Resource Directory's Presentations area.  Enjoy!

I'm leaving in the morning for Las Vegas for ASP.NET Connections, where I understand attendance is extremely high relative to expectations, no doubt related to the fact that Microsoft is launching many of their new dev products this week.  I'm going to be hosting three sessions this week and look forward to meeting folks in person whom I've ...

Soma announces Visual Studio 2005 RC1 and Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server (TFS) Beta 3 will be released in September.  The Beta 3 will feature a Go Live license, so organizations can immediately begin using the Team System features.  Release of TFS is slated for the first quarter of 2006, and all data in the Beta 3 edition will ...